Violin series @ Raga Sudha Hall, 13 & 14 Jan 2013

[srikant1987]

13 Jan, Sunday

5 pm
Vittal Ramamurthy & Padma Shankar - Violin
B Ganapathyraman - Mridangam

7 pm
VV Ravi & BU Ganeshprasad - Violin
Poongulam Subramaniam - Mridangam

14 Jan, Monday

5 pm
S Varadrajan & M Vijay - Violin
Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam

7 pm
RK Shriramkumar - Violin
Manoj Siva - Mridangam

[arasi]

Interesting series of not just brothers or sisters playing together.
Who's M. Vijay? Haven't heard (of) him...

[mahavishnu]

Arasi: He is a student of Varadarajan's.
More here: http://www.kutcheris.com/artist.php?id=601

[arasi]

Thanks Ramesh.
With his background, 'sounds' like a promising violinist.

[Nick H]

Too many &s! Let us have these violin soloists as soloists

Anyway, sadly, I will not be able to attend on these dates.

[srikant1987]

But Nick, vocalists and flautists, and also some vainikas, have violin accompaniment, and nadaswarams perform as a duo too.

[Nick H]

So violin should have violin ...accompaniment!

Actually, I prefer all my "main artists" to be single solo, and I do think that the point of a violin festival should be to give the violinists a chance to have a whole concert just to themselves.

But then, if the organisers were here, they might reply, "Well, it's not your violin festival, it's ours. So there!" ] Fair enough . And I'm glad that they are giving violinists a chance to be centre-stage. There should be more such chances.

And, as I said, I'm not available for concert going on any of those dates, so it is all sour grapes on my part anyway :$

[appu]

Greetings all from Bhopal.

Could any rasikas who attended this event post a detailed write up. Yearning for Carnatic music. Living vicariously through others.

[Rsachi]

Appu, have you please accessed these sources:
Carnatic radio
Radioweb.in
Carnatica on radiowalla.in
Sangeethapriya live radio
Parvathi blog
Arvindsdad
You tube VKailasam channels
Etc. etc.
All these require good connectivity, though.